Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization chartered by King Henry VIII in 1514 as a "Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and Undividable Trinity of St. Clement." Duties: to erect and manage coast lighthouses and buoys, operate the pilot service in harbors. In 1604 members were divided into Elder and Younger Brethren. There are 13 Elder Brethren, two from the Navy, eleven from the Merchant Marine; and 200 Younger Brethren, elected by the Elders. Trinity House is now a corporation. Churchill is an Elder Brother...
...family business. The reason is that the three brothers who owned the business between 1870 and 1890 drew up a partnership agreement which allowed each one to introduce only one son into the firm. Colonel Wedgwood's eldest brother was chosen for the honor, and the two younger sons were automatically excluded...
...policy in a world at war. GOPatriarch Lowden, who was a great Governor of Illinois and missed the Presidency by a hair in 1920, was a name to conjure with in days gone by. To go along with him on the statement, 14 other potent signatures of a slightly younger vintage were rounded up. Then Patriarch Lowden, who once was a brave Midwestern anti-isolationist, handed out an isolationist blast saying...
Oscar Stauffer, 21 years younger than Arthur Capper, is a tolerant critic of Roosevelt's foreign policy. But Arthur Capper blankets northeast and central Kansas with isolationist sentiments equaled in venom only by the Chicago Tribune...
...remarkable first novel came out of the South this week, and the Jeeter Lesters, Ty Waldens, Snopes and Joads moved over to make room for a new family of U.S. literary Kallikaks - the Taylors. Its author: John Faulkner, younger brother of William Faulkner (Sanctuary and eleven other novels). The story: how the Taylors and their neighbors exchanged the certain poverty of sharecropping in Mississippi for the uncertainties of city life...